Food & Society

For decades, smiling images of Aunt Jemima and other historical and fictional black cooks could be found on various food products and in advertisin...

Melding the rural and the urban with the local, regional, and global, Levantine cuisine is a mélange of ingredients, recipes, and modes of consumpt...

As seen in Grazia, the Guardian, and more...Recognised as one of the most beloved fruits of the Black diaspora, Plantain holds profound value withi...

Fortnum & Mason Food Book of the Year 2020 Addresses the paradox of our age: why as we become pr...

In Indigenous Knowledge: An Alternative for Food Security and Wellness in Africa, Emmanuel O. Oritsejafor argues that Indigenous Knowledge (IK) nee...

Divided Spirits tells the stories of tequila and mezcal, two of Mexico's most iconic products. In doing so, the book illustrates how neoliberalism ...

Food, Media and Contemporary Culture is designed to interrogate the cultural fascination with food as the focus of a growing number of visual texts...

From Chinatown to Every Town explores the recent history of Chinese immigration within the United States and the fundamental changes in spatial set...

Like the Green Revolution of the 1960s, a Blue Revolution has taken place in global aquaculture. Geared towards quenching the appetite of privilege...

Most people try out diets just to see if they work. One friend cuts out sugar, a second cuts out fat. Another mumbles something about gut microbes....

Most people try out diets just to see if they work. One friend cuts out sugar, a second cuts out fat. Another mumbles something about gut microbes....

Control and Resistance reveals the various ways in which food writing of the early Franco era was a potent political tool, producing ways of eating...

Is the future of food looking bleak or better than ever? At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates w...

Food Rules and Rituals includes selected papers from the 2023 Oxford Food Symposium. Grounded in a number of different disciplines, writers from ar...

Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all, is one of the most basic human needs and a foun...

Famine Relief in Warlord China is a reexamination of disaster responses during the greatest ecological crisis of the pre-Nationalist Chinese republ...

The making, eating, and sharing of food throughout society represents an important and exciting area of study with the potential to advance the fie...

When it comes to reducing animal suffering, many people arent sure where to start or which options are most beneficial - Charitable donations? Volu...

Guides students through a rich menu of American history through food and eating This book features a wide and diverse range of primary sources cove...

This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemi...

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM AND MASON FOOD BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMON AWARDA brilliant, passionate and spellbinding tour de force Claudia R...

Food for the Future: Stories from the Alternative Agro-food Movement is about different foods, the stories they contain, and most of all the people...

In Indigenous Knowledge: An Alternative for Food Security and Wellness in Africa, Emmanuel O. Oritsejafor argues that Indigenous Knowledge (IK) nee...

Opened in 1907 in Shreveport, Louisiana, by Lizzetta LeFalle-Collinss grandfather, Black dairy farmer Angus Bates, Lakeside Dairy was a rarity in t...

A gorgeous, evocative memoir of family, food and migration. As a child, Or Rosenboims knowledge of her family history was based on the food her gra...

In a food industry shaped by the abundance, cheapness, and convenience that giant corporations can offer, small-­scale ventures struggle to survive...

This book made me laugh and then order an unholy amount of takeaway. GREG DAVIESOne of my favourite comics has now written an annoyingly great book...

From the Financial Times's long-standing restaurant critic Nicholas Lander comes this celebration of the history, design and evolution of the world...

The definitive case for radically rethinking humanity's relationship with other animals - for the good of us all. 'The book that had the most impac...

How have eating habits changed in recent decades? What does it mean to eat well? This fascinating book examines continuity and change in food consu...

How have eating habits changed in recent decades? What does it mean to eat well? This fascinating book examines continuity and change in food consu...

Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology presents an introduction to cultural anthropology designed to engage students who are learning about the ...

Nutraceutical, during recent decades, has emerged as a new term in the scientific literature. Synonymously used to the term nutraceuticals in liter...

Couch potatoes are idlers, cabbageheads are dunces, swede-bashers are stupid and you may as well give up life if you become a vegetable.A vegetable...

What urban food networks reveal about middle class livability in times of transformation In recent years, the concept of livability has captured th...

What urban food networks reveal about middle class livability in times of transformation In recent years, the concept of livability has captured th...

Humans are unique among animals for the wide diversity of foods and food preparation techniques that are intertwined with regional cultural distinc...

Gerald Diffey has spent four decades immersed in the world of food, wine and hospitality, from early days waiting tables in old English hotels to e...